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PLU’s Wang Center Symposium to explore “The Matter of Loneliness: Building Connections for Collective Well-Being” Posted by: mhines / February 26, 2024 Image: The 11th Biennial Wang Center symposium, “The Matter of Loneliness: Building Connections for Collective Well-Being,” will take place on March 7-8, 2024. February 26, 2024 By Ava EdmondsMarketing and CommunicationsThe 11th Biennial Wang Center symposium, “The Matter of Loneliness: Building Connections for Collective Well-Being,” will be

March 13 and run through April 10. In this exhibit, the artists’ paintings act as a metaphor for the current state of the earth. Although the artists have different processes, they both work to convey ecological concern. Camlin’s work is landscape-based, often representative of ice sheets and global glacial melting. Her icy landscapes explore relationships between abstract and naturalistic visual languages. Her pieces symbolize geological and environmental changes. Richman uses poured paint to evoke

New DPT program at PNWU PNWU School of Physical Therapy Posted by: alemanem / March 7, 2023 March 7, 2023 There are some great benefits to joining a new program at PNWU School of Physical Therapy. Some highlights: small faculty to student ratios, state-of-the-art cadaver dissection laboratory, simulation center, and the Center for Applied Movement Sciences lab. The Center for Applied Movement Sciences lab is part of PNWUs pro bono clinic campus where students have an opportunity to work with

,’” Miller said. “But I know Mark, I know this project and I know this experience.” Students, such as Alex Domine ’16 and his team, focused on crafting the Skagit Valley experience. Domine studied how farmers markets, such as Pike Place or others, are more of an experience than a trip to a grocery store. “We were selling the experience of being part of a common good and made it convenient,” Domine said. Dr. Mary Noel ’18, a family physician at Madigan Army Medical Center, worked on branding the region

they love, and the moment they knew that this was their calling. Stories by Chris Albert and Barbara Clements Dr. Jennifer Aviles ’97 ER Physician, Highline Medical Center, Wash. “I realized that medicine is an opportunity to care about people different from ourselves.” MORE >> Dr. Nathaniel Schlicher ’00 ER Physician, St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Tacoma “I didn’t want to work in a lab. I wanted to care for the whole patient.” MORE >> Dr. Jennifer Specht ’94 Oncologist, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

partnership has been forged between the Office of Alumni and Constituent Relations, Student Involvement and Leadership, Student Athletic Advisory Council and the Administrative Staff Council. The goal? To connect our current students, incoming students, alumni, faculty and staff in one big end of summer bash. This year PLU Night at the Rainiers is dedicated to showcasing PLU. There will be a PLU hospitality tent with lots of Lute mementos, PLU information and friendly smiles will be accessible to all

Reflective Viewing: Finding the Divine Within You Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / February 10, 2017 February 10, 2017  February 23 at 6pm Mare Blocker, Lecturer | Ingram 100 • FreeSelected pages from the St. John’s Bible will be used to practice Visio Divina, a contemplative, repetitive, prayerful viewing of the illuminations on the page. In an increasingly visual culture, where the images we view are fast paced, this technique invites the viewer to slow down and see the image. Workshop

PLU students visit Oaxaca, Mexico, to learn about health care 🇲🇽 Posted by: mhines / January 17, 2024 January 17, 2024 January Term (J-Term for short), PLU’s month-long term between fall and spring semester, is when many of our students take advantage of our incredible study away options in multiple places around the world. Planned and coordinated by professors and PLU’s study away center, J-Term study away class options range from Marine Biology in the Bahamas to a Political Science course

June 30, 2011 Life of the Mind: One student’s journey shapes the landscape of PLU, by imagining the past By Chris Albert Standing under the branches of a Garry oak tree on the hill behind the University Center, Reed Ojala-Barbour ’11 takes stock of the open space in front of him. He’s imagining what it must have been like more than 100 years ago – before the basketball court, sand volleyball court, and the well-manicured lawn bordered by a dry creek bed and residence halls. Reed Ojala-Barbour

state public health departments. He heard about the clinic and jumped at the chance to continue PLU’s longstanding tradition of working with healthcare agencies to serve the community.  “PLU has been a great (community) partner in terms of the pandemic response,” Zaichkin said. “The university is part of the solution versus part of the problem and this is just one other part of that.” While the goal of the clinic was to help stop the spread of COVID-19, it was also a chance for nursing students to